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DIED. OCTAVIA BUTLER, 58, novelist who was the first black woman to achieve major success in the white-male-dominated genre of science fiction; of head injuries from a fall; in Seattle, Wash. A loner and self-described "oil-and-water" mix of "ambition, laziness, insecurity [and] certainty," Butler subverted sci-fi stereotypes to tackle issues like racism and poverty in books like Kindred, the tale of a black woman who time-travels back to the antebellum South. In 1995, she became the only sci-fi writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant...
...that James McTeigue spiffily directed, are back in top form--not larding political meaning on an action plot but finding a seamless blending of the two. Whether you're mindless or Mensa, you'll find stuff here to challenge and trouble you, the way a good piece of speculative fiction should...
...teaching fellow] give a lecture in class on graffiti. He himself had been a graffiti writer…and I didn’t have a sense that he was self-consciously slumming or anything like that.”Menand had his students watch “Pulp Fiction,” and he was pleased with the results. “I thought we had a good serious discussion about what it meant,” he says.One of Connor’s students, Jeremy Landau ’08, similarly commented on the genuine academic stimulation...
...tried fiction a few more times, but the results were always the same. I would describe these great battle scenes and these exciting action heroes, but I would always leave out a plot because I could never think...
Nearly 20 years later, the same cannot be said for Jaffe. After graduating from Harvard as a History and Literature concentrator with a summa thesis and a penchant for the past, Jaffe went on to pen a number of steamy historical fiction romances that have captured the minds (and groins) of many sex-deprived students at her alma mater...